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Beyond Endurance: 300 Boats, 600 Miles, and One Deadly Storm

In Beyond Endurance, Toronto journalist Adam Mayers tells the story of the 1979 Fastnet race, the worst tragedy in ocean racing history, through the experiences of the crews of four Canadian boats.The storm that hit ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: History

Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

By Marusya Bociurkiw

Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups reveals the connections between food, memory, and life. Drawing on Bociurkiw’s Ukrainian upbringing in Alberta, Comfort Food is more than a simple memoir/travelogue filled with food, love, and loss. ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In Bad Taste?: The Adventures and Science Behind Food Delicacies

By Massimo Francesco Marcone

If ever there were an Ace Ventura: Food Detective, it would be University of Guelph food scientist Massimo Marcone, who has, in this compact book, collected some of his globetrotting adventures in search of some ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Dead Centre: Hope, Possibility, and Unity for Canadian Progressives

By Jamey Heath

There is a considerable amount of frustration on display in Jamey Heath’s Dead Centre. The former research and communications director for the federal New Democrats under Jack Layton is calling for the consolidation of the ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel

By Laura Byrne Paquet

“Why Leave Home?” is the title of the first chapter of Wanderlust by Ottawa-based writer Laura Byrne Paquet. Good question.This is Paquet’s second foray into the social history genre, following 2003’s The Urge to Splurge: ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, The Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

By William Stevenson

Readers of William Stevenson’s 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid, about a Canadian-born Second World War spy for the British (named, oddly enough, William Stephenson) will find themselves in familiar territory with the author’s newest ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: History

The Empress Letters

By Linda Rogers

What are the images conjured up by the city of Victoria? For me it’s tea at the Empress Hotel, a fairy-tale legislature, wonderful arts-and-crafts architecture, Butchart Gardens, and hanging baskets of flowers along the main ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fresh: Seasonal Recipes Made with Local Ingredients

By John Bishop, Dennis Green

One of life’s little disappointments is seeing the words “seasonal recipes” on the cover of a new cookbook. The four-section, four-season cookbook, with recipes representing the bounties of spring, summer, fall, and winter, has been ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick

By Kevin Bazzana

B.C. writer Kevin Bazzana follows up Wondrous Strange, his sterling and very nearly definitive biography of Glenn Gould, with a winning account of the strange life and times of one Ervin Nyiregyhazi. Nyiregyhazi, for those ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Radiance

By Shaena Lambert;

The taut artistry of Radiance makes for a highly provocative exploration of American guilt following the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In her first novel, Vancouver’s Shaena Lambert has woven together a searing narrative ... Read More »